New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-10

m0nthS now have Dccn StrOI ing over EurOIe
in search of sympathy and support got very
bitter dose of advice from the French Govern
mcnt yesterday. 1t was to accept the Prince
Of Mingielia as their ruler. This is precisely
the person the Bulgarians have declared they
could not have; and, indeed, to call him to
the r throne would simply be putting thinly
disguised Russian there These wandering
statesmen would letter 90 home and set up
a republic in the Balkans. From no point Of
view does their present pilgrimage pay and
Bulgaria is not a rich country.
The shooting Of the roundsman. Robert
Montgomery, by the drunken policeman,
Rourkc was shocking affair. Rourke's
&C ion is aggravated by the fact that Mont
gomery tried to do him a good turn by getting
him into the OPEN air so that he might become
sol er and possibly 60 back to his Iost. Blu
the responsibility for the crime does not rest
entirely on Rourke. He divides it with the
Police Commissioners or the Superintendent
Of Police, who have kept him on the force
although they knew no was a drunkard or
should have known it, In view OF the high
pay which parolmen got and the pension pro-
vided for them, the standard is not too high
that requires every police officer in the city
to be strictly sober and honest
The heroism of the hfe-saving crew, who
were drowned in trying to rescue the sailors
ON the wrecked ship Elizabeth, off Cape
Henry, deserves moro than f1eeting thought.
Seven men launched their boat in tho face
of almost certain death, and their worst cxpec-
tations were realized. The boat a.sized and
five of the men were drowned. Details OF
the accident are not yet full enough TO justify
criticism on the point, but apparently the hfcboat
did not right itself as it would have done II 1t
had been of the best kind. Of the quality of
the mems action in launching it, however.
there is no question. 1t was bravery OF the
noblest kind, none the less worthy Of distinc-
ton and honor because there are scores Of
other men attached 10 life-saviDg stations on
the Atlantic Coast who are capable Of facing
equal peril without fiinchng every day.
The improvei Board of Education will begin
its struggle with the public school problems OF
the year on Wednesday. Of course it has not
nearly all the money 1t wants; no department
of the city government ey or did have ALI the
money It wanted. But perhaps tho idea ill
occur to some of the Comm .sioners this year
that, il in expend:ng the funds allowed for
1897 some attention shonld DO paid to the sug.
cestions of the Board Of Estimate and Appor.
tionmsnt which granted them. next December
this Board Of Estimate might be ic more gen
erous state If mind toward the needs Of the
Schools in 1888. For instance. to meet smaller
appropriation IL 10 said that the Commissioners
will reduce the salaries of the Normal School
professors and teachers 10 per cent ali around.
That 10 just what the Board Of Estimate did
not want done. The members suggested that
the salaries Of tho hi9h-prieed president and
professors should be out and tho modest pay Of |
the more humble teachers loft untouched. |
That was an excellent recon mendatioD. and II |
parried out would meet popular approval.
The action Of fhs Legislature which Assem-
~ q Tronton tomorrow 10 envelopod In
aoad q uncertainty - dsnss thss svsn tho